ferro-concrete

• “The tour starts at Michelin House, Fulham Road, the curiously delightful and beautifully restored former headquarters of the Michelin Tyre Company designed by the engineer François Espinasse in a flouncy art nouveau style that belies its radical ferro-concrete structure.”

  The Guardian: Best of the London Festival of Architecture

• “It proved inadequate for the expanding Goole population, so the simply gargantuan ferro-concrete tower was built next to it in 1926.”

  Cool Goole No 2

• “Then came pitch darkness as if the ferro-concrete hospital were an express train that had just rushed headlong into a tunnel. . .”

  The Saint of Urakami

• “He built the whole factory as a ferro-concrete steel-reinforced barge.”

  Earthquake and adobe

• “Main Entrance Hall and Lobby, Imperial Hotel, Tokyo (built 1923): The main finish is Greenish tuff (volcanic rock) carved in geometric patterns, and yellow brick, while ferro-concrete is used to provide structural strength.”

  Meiji Village Museum « Far Outliers

• “Into an anonymous post-war building made of ferro-concrete, made up of usagigoya, tiny rabbit-hutch apartments.”

  The White Ninja

• “Somewhere down in the Sprawl's ferro-concrete roots, a train drove a column of stale air through a tunnel.”

  Neuromancer

• “The walls were gray ferro-concrete, interspersed with steel girders, half-emerged from the walls, like sentinels or bodybuilders.”

  The Kaisho

• “The new weapon was a kind of amphibious ferro-concrete tank which could move through the sea under its own power and crawl clumsily ashore over flat beaches.”

  Operation Sea Lion

• “As to their feasibility he argued that their construction would be 'a simple task for the ferro-concrete expert 'and floating would be automatic if the space enclosed by the walls were of sufficient size.”

  Operation Sea Lion

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